University of Pennsylvania, LJS 476
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS713
- Shelfmark:
- LJS 476
- Title:
- Yesod ʻolam.
- Israeli, Isaac ben Joseph, active 14th century
- Place:
- Spain or Italy
- Date:
- [1460?]
- Language:
- Hebrew
- Physical Description:
- Extent: 70 leaves : parchment and paper, illustrations ; 198 x 136 (140 x 88) mm bound to 210 x 146 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Dessauer, M. 1842-1895
Országos Rabbiképző-Intézet (Hungary)
- Note:
- Collation: Parchment and paper, i (modern paper) + 70 + i (modern paper); 1¹⁸ 2-3²⁰ 4²⁰(-8); [1-70], modern foliation in pencil, upper left and upper center recto. Gatherings have outermost and central bifolia of parchment with paper bifolia in between.
Origin: Written in Spain or Italy, ca. 1460.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. codex.
Layout: Written in 40 long lines; frame-ruled in faint ink.
Script: Written in Sephardic Hebrew script.
Decoration: 37 astronomical diagrams representing orbits, eclipses, and other phenomena, with spaces left blank for additional diagrams.
Binding: Modern leather, blind-tooled, with 2 clasps.
Formerly owned by Moritz Dessauer, founding rabbi of the synagogue in Meiningen; inscription, Geschenk des Landrabbiners Dr. M. Dessauer in Meiningen, recording gift by Dessauer to unknown recipient (inside lower cover).
Sold by Sam Fogg Ltd. (London) to Lawrence J. Schoenberg, Fall 2005.
Formerly in the library of Országos Rabbiképző-Intézet (the Rabbincal Seminary of Budapest).
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012. - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9958580733503681
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3ww82/manifest
- Holding Institution:
